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A UKIP councillor has been suspended after blaming the recent floods,
which has washed out much of the UK, on the Government's decision to
make gay marriage legal.
SUSPENDED: David Silvester has been temporarily banned from the party after his actions
David Silvester said that the recent downpour has come because Prime Minister David Cameron "arrogantly acted against the Gospel" in agreeing to passing the new law.
His comments in a letter to his local newspaper in Henley-on-Thames blasted Cameron for causing the storms saying "no man can mess with Almighty God".
Despite his personal rant, Ukip have stuck by the councillor saying: "Whilst we don't agree with his views we aren't going to ban people for being religious anymore that we would call for the banning of religious texts."
But the party was keen to keep the councillor's views under wraps and refrained him from speaking to the media.
After defying the party's authority this morning by having an interview with a BBC radio station, the party had no other option but to suspend him.
In his radio interview today, the councillor, who defected from the Conservative Party to join Ukip, labelled homosexuality as "a spiritual disease".
His suspension comes as Ukip leader Nigel Farage vowed today to axe candidates who show real "extremism".
BLAME: David Cameron has caused ther floods - according to Mr Silvester
In his original letter, Mr Silvester said: "The scriptures make it abundantly clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war.
"I wrote to David Cameron in April 2012 to warn him that disasters would accompany the passage of his same-sex marriage bill.
"But he went ahead despite a 600,000-signature petition by concerned Christians and more than half of his own parliamentary party saying that he should not do so.
"He has arrogantly acted against the Gospel that once made Britain 'great' and the lesson surely to be learned is that no man or men, however powerful, can mess with Almighty God with impunity and get away with it for everything a nation does is weighed on the scaled of divine approval or disapproval.
Picking out Cameron personally, he wrote: " It is his fault that large swathes of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods."
His comments were met with huge outrage across the nation even appalling some Ukip members with his actions.
FLOODS: The weather had submerged much of the UK from Surrey to Cornwall
Ukip's South East Chairman Roger Bird said:"We cannot have any individual using the Ukip banner to promote their controversial personal beliefs which are not shared by the Party.
"Everyone is entitled to their own religious ideology which is central to a free and fair society. Councillor Silvester's views are his own and in no way reflect the Party's position.
"However, Councillor Silvester has today acted contrary to Party requests and continued to court the media in order to promote his own personal beliefs."This has caused significant offence to many people and goes against the core principles of Ukip."
But this is not the first time a Ukip member has made a gaffe.
In 2013, Godfrey Bloom referred to countries that Britain gave foreign aid to as "Bongo Bongo Land".
Richard Lane, a spokesman for the gay rights charity Stonewall, told MailOnline: "Its hardly surprising that we've seen unusual weather patterns in Britain, considering the enormous amount of hot air being produced by some UKIP members."
SUSPENDED: David Silvester has been temporarily banned from the party after his actionsDavid Silvester said that the recent downpour has come because Prime Minister David Cameron "arrogantly acted against the Gospel" in agreeing to passing the new law.
His comments in a letter to his local newspaper in Henley-on-Thames blasted Cameron for causing the storms saying "no man can mess with Almighty God".
Despite his personal rant, Ukip have stuck by the councillor saying: "Whilst we don't agree with his views we aren't going to ban people for being religious anymore that we would call for the banning of religious texts."
But the party was keen to keep the councillor's views under wraps and refrained him from speaking to the media.
After defying the party's authority this morning by having an interview with a BBC radio station, the party had no other option but to suspend him.
In his radio interview today, the councillor, who defected from the Conservative Party to join Ukip, labelled homosexuality as "a spiritual disease".
His suspension comes as Ukip leader Nigel Farage vowed today to axe candidates who show real "extremism".
BLAME: David Cameron has caused ther floods - according to Mr Silvester In his original letter, Mr Silvester said: "The scriptures make it abundantly clear that a Christian nation that abandons its faith and acts contrary to the Gospel (and in naked breach of a coronation oath) will be beset by natural disasters such as storms, disease, pestilence and war.
"I wrote to David Cameron in April 2012 to warn him that disasters would accompany the passage of his same-sex marriage bill.
"But he went ahead despite a 600,000-signature petition by concerned Christians and more than half of his own parliamentary party saying that he should not do so.
"He has arrogantly acted against the Gospel that once made Britain 'great' and the lesson surely to be learned is that no man or men, however powerful, can mess with Almighty God with impunity and get away with it for everything a nation does is weighed on the scaled of divine approval or disapproval.
Picking out Cameron personally, he wrote: " It is his fault that large swathes of the nation have been afflicted by storms and floods."
His comments were met with huge outrage across the nation even appalling some Ukip members with his actions.
FLOODS: The weather had submerged much of the UK from Surrey to Cornwall Ukip's South East Chairman Roger Bird said:"We cannot have any individual using the Ukip banner to promote their controversial personal beliefs which are not shared by the Party.
"Everyone is entitled to their own religious ideology which is central to a free and fair society. Councillor Silvester's views are his own and in no way reflect the Party's position.
"However, Councillor Silvester has today acted contrary to Party requests and continued to court the media in order to promote his own personal beliefs."This has caused significant offence to many people and goes against the core principles of Ukip."
But this is not the first time a Ukip member has made a gaffe.
In 2013, Godfrey Bloom referred to countries that Britain gave foreign aid to as "Bongo Bongo Land".
Richard Lane, a spokesman for the gay rights charity Stonewall, told MailOnline: "Its hardly surprising that we've seen unusual weather patterns in Britain, considering the enormous amount of hot air being produced by some UKIP members."
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